Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When it was founded in 1917 the Society of Independent Artists did more than any other U.S. organization to break the stodgy, stale tobacco-juice-landscape and frock-coat-portrait traditions that had clung to U.S. art since the late 19th Century. In those Academy-ridden days, the Indépendents' free-for-all (patterned after Paris' famed Salon des Indépendents) offered artists with new ideas their one big chance. Many exhibitors at the early Independents shows later became famed figures in the U.S. art world. As the years went by, as modernism changed from...
...zooming 15-minute visit to the Press Photographers' show in Manhattan, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt stopped to admire a large portrait. Asked a knowing guide: "Do you recognize him?" Surveying the picture of Wendell Willkie, she responded: "Oh yes, I remember him well...
...more reflective moments Marty Hyman has always had a weakness for art. Sent to cover some grimy accident-ward tragedy, he would come back to the Record with unnewsworthy details-the faces of a helpless old man and a crippled child, a seamy portrait of an old flower vendor. Marty Hyman's touching, tear-jerking character studies appealed to Record readers...
...Francis Hyde Bang's biography is a rather docile portrait of a personable, energetic, businessman-of-letters making good through capitalizing a bottomless facility for thin wit. It also evokes a rather sterile era in U.S. cultural history. The merry dinners of Bangs and his circle still echo bloodlessly in Manhattan's Century Club, and their humor, which used to roll the genteel families of this continent in the aisles, still lives palely in a few faculty-censored class annals. Today it seems hard to believe that a whole generation could laugh at both Bangs and Mark Twain...
After becoming a successful portrait painter, Woolf rebelled at last because a sitter's tailor complained of the way Woolf painted his client's suit. Turning to lithography, he was hired by the New York Times to do illustrations for its book and feature sections. The idea of doing interviews with his sketches came from an encounter with George Bernard Shaw. Turned down when he called personally to do a sketch of Shaw, Woolf wrote him a Shavian letter, saying that "immortality will not be yours until I have drawn you." Replied Shaw: "I have now considerable experience...